[Elecraft] K3 AF Limiter (was Recommended AGC settings for separation of signals in CW pile-ups)

[Fred Jensen]

My K3 has an AF Limiter?

I must be doing something wrong or perhaps I'm more deaf than I thought 
but I've never heard any of these problems.  I can usually pick out one 
of two callers exactly zero beat with each other, I'm not sure exactly 
how I do it but more often than not, I do.  Three or more zero beat 
starts to get pretty hard on any receiver I've ever used.

I run with AGC on essentially all the time and every now and then I 
rotate the RF Gain down and back up just so it doesn't freeze in the 
full on position :-)  I'll give the ancient "AF full, ride the RF, AGC 
off" a try today on ECN and see how it sounds, Kevin is usually at the 
noise level on 20 this time of year.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org

On 12/5/2010 11:23 AM, Dave Hachadorian wrote:
> Hi Lyle,
>
> Thanks for entering the discussion. It's great that the company
> guys monitor these reflectors.
>
> Even at its maximum 030 setting, the AF Limiter is problematic.